Progress in research of liver surgery in China

摘要

Liver surgery, was started in the late 1950s in China and has developed rapidly in the past 40 years~[1]. The study on the diagnosis and treatment of primary Liver cancer in China underwent four stages: (1) In The 1950s, the anatomical study of the liver lay a Solid foundation for liver resection~[2]. (2) In the 1960s and 1970s, studies mainly focused on the detecting methods of AFP and other tumor markers, clinical and pathologic characterion of small liver cancer and epidemiology of liver cancer.